Newspaper Rack Graveyard

During my New York visit a few weeks ago I fell in love with the newspaper racks you find everywhere along the streets. However, things are changing…

“These photos of disused newspaper racks in a San Francisco storage yard — taken March 13, 2009 — are pretty much all you need to know about the state of the industry. No one is buying, and it’s time to throw the old technology for distributing news away.”

The Portabee is one of the first 3D printers that will be affordable to a wider public. Where you have to pay several thousands of euros for regular 3D printers, the Portabee is priced at $500 (about €375). This kind of pricing makes 3D printers a lot more affordable and appealing to the general public instead of remaining nerdy hardware — something that you could call a little break-through.

Matt Brown, a student Interaction Design at the Swedish Umeå Institute of Design, is the guy behind the project ‘Food and the Future of It’. He created an awesome blog (one of those small jewels you find from time to time), which he used to report about his research on the future of our food….

Pop-up has become mature in the past few years. New types of pop-up creativity emerge that or not initiated by artists, designers or architects, but by other organizations that usually are not the first ones to adopt new trends. Studio Dental, for instance, has concrete plans for the first dentist clinic on wheels.

3D printing becomes increasingly relevant, and we love to observe how it’s developing these days. During the weekend I saw an article of Make Magazine passing by about Cubely, an idealistic ‘Open Hardware’ project that aims to make 3D printing easy, accessible and inexpensive using completely open hardware designs and free open source software. Following…